She shares it with only two people - her companion/lover Taena Merryweather and Qyburn. This part of the prophecy has been omitted from the show.Ĭersei never tells Jaime about the prophecy. Naturally, Cersei assumes it refers to Tyrion she forgets that Jaime is also younger than her. She also tells Cersei: " When your tears have drowned you, the valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you". In the books, Maggy tells Cersei that Robert will have sixteen, not twenty children. Based on Kevan's comment there is a fan theory that Sybelle Spicer might have not only concocted a contraceptive for her daughter, to prevent her from getting pregnant by Robb (as she reveals to Jaime), but also a love potion, to make Robb susceptible to Jeyne's advances. Kevan recalls Maggy as frightening old crone, who was supposed to be a priestess, and that half of Lannisport used to go to her for cures and love potions. The nickname "Maggy" is conjectured to be a slurred mishearing from the foreign word Maegi.
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This spice merchant was the founder of House Spicer and grandfather of Sybell Spicer, the mother of Jeyne Westerling, who later married Robb Stark (Jeyne was changed into the character Talisa for the TV series). In the A Song of Ice and Fire novels, Maggy-often called Maggy the Frog-is not simply a Westerosi woods witch, but an Essosi fortune teller living in Lannisport, the wife of a spice merchant who brought her with him from Essos. She demonstrated this ability to a young Cersei in her childhood: after she drank the blood from her fingertip, she told Cersei three visions from her future, with all coming true in her adulthood, showing her to have genuine magical powers.Īppearance Game of Thrones Season 5 appearances Maggy is a powerful blood mage, and can receive prophetic visions of a person's future by drinking their blood. Maggy's prophecy finally comes true at the Battle of King's Landing: when Daenerys destroys the city, Cersei and Jaime are killed in the process. Jaime dismisses that prophecy as nonsense. Season 6Ĭersei, mourning her daughter, tells Jaime about Maggy's prophecy, claiming that everything she said came true. Cersei fears that Margaery is the younger and more beautiful queen that Maggy warned her about. Cersei is disturbed because her eldest son has already died, poisoned at his own wedding to Margaery Tyrell, who will now marry her younger son and become the new queen, while her daughter Myrcella is in Dorne as a ward-and potential hostage-of Doran Martell, brother of the late Elia and Oberyn Martell, both of whom died at the hands of her bannerman Gregor Clegane. Cersei didn't think that made sense (not realizing that a king can have bastard children), but Maggy continued to say of her three children that gold would be their crowns, and gold their burial shrouds, implying that all of Cersei's children would predecease her.Ĭersei remembers meeting Maggy right before her father's funeral, after he was murdered by her own brother Tyrion. Maggy cryptically replied that the king would have 20 children, but Cersei would have only three. Third, Cersei asked if she and the king would have children. Maggy confirmed that she would, but that in time she would be overthrown by another, younger and more beautiful queen, who would cast her down and take all she held dear. Worried, Cersei used her second question to ask if she would indeed be queen some day. Maggy responded that she wouldn't marry "the prince" but she would marry " the king". Maggy told Cersei that she could ask three questions, but mocked the prideful young girl that she wouldn't like the answers.įirst, Cersei's father had promised that she would wed Rhaegar Targaryen, and she wanted to know when they would marry.
Cersei complied and Maggy then literally sucked some blood from the cut, as part of her blood magic. Chuckling, Maggy relented and asked Cersei for a taste of her blood, handing her a knife to cut her finger with. Cersei entered Maggy's hut uninvited, but when Maggy woke and demanded that she get out, Cersei arrogantly pointed out that Maggy was on her father's lands, and threatened that she would have her eyes gouged out if she refused her.
When she was a teenager, Cersei went to visit Maggy at her hut in the woods, accompanied by Melara Hetherspoon, because she had heard that the witch could read people's futures.
In hindsight, he realized that the name "Maggy" was likely a corruption of the Eastern word for wizards: maegi.
He also recalled that his father hunted her down, remarking that whatever magical powers she claimed to have didn't save her life. Samwell Tarly once recalled overhearing a story of a woods witch named "Maggy the Frog" camping near Horn Hill, which suggest she left the Westerlands at some point.